Stay Healthy Blog

Stay Healthy with Mercyhealth, offers everyday tips, practical strategies and perspectives for your health and wellness, as well as timely discussion from a variety of doctors, specialists and experts. Our blogs covers a variety of topics intended to help our patients make healthy decisions in their everyday life while also informing members of the Mercyhealth community of changes occurring throughout our organization.

We cover topics ranging from different areas of the news, to healthy recipes that you can use at home. At Mercyhealth we believe that a lifestyle does not end when you leave the doctor’s office, and that’s why we work to make sure you have the knowledge to live the healthiest life possible.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center-Riverside is looking for hundreds of people who find a passion in helping those who need it most.
The new hospital is looking for 200 people to fill volunteer positions at its new ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) - Mercyhealth is looking for volunteers for its new campus on Riverside Boulevard in Rockford.
The volunteers would help with patient transports around the hospital, greet folks walking in, work in the gift shop and deliver flowers and cards ...

ROCKFORD - The Mercyhealth Cancer Center is hosting a monthly support group for people with cancer.
It started the support group for people going through treatment for any type of cancer, whether they're Mercyhealth patients or not. Group members are encouraged ...

1 in 9 women in Wisconsin smoke during pregnancy
JANESVILLE (WKOW TV) -- A new study by the CDC shows 1 in 9 women in Wisconsin smoke while pregnant. Researchers examined Wisconsin and the United States by birth certificates from 2016.
The ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Mercyhealth is honoring the men and women who dream, invent and build by celebrating National Engineers Week at its new Riverside campus.
Engineers play a major role in the new Mercyhealth Hospital and Trauma Center - Riverside design and ...

JANESVILLE, Wis. - Doctors, paramedics and fire officials gathered Thursday to eat cake and celebrate five years of service for Mercyhealth’s MD-1 Emergency Response program.
The program puts doctors on the road so they are able to quickly respond to critical calls ...

JANESVILLE - First responders thought Mike Ehlers was dead when they arrived at the scene of a crash in 2016.
Ehlers’ car had hit the rear of a school bus on Highway 14, crushing his body and vehicle underneath the bus.
Before the ...

Eating healthy can be easy, tasty and inexpensive if you stick to some simple guidelines.
Who isn’t trying to eat healthy these days?
After all, it can help reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke and lots of other things you’d rather ...

To find out more about Mercyhealth's Heart and Vascular Services, click here.
Don’t wait to get help if you experience any of these heart attack warning signs. Although some heart attacks are sudden and intense, most start slowly, with mild pain ...